CIVIL RIGHTS TIMELINE

  • 1947- the Dodgers signed Jackie Robinson.

    He was the first African american to play baseball since 1889
  • President Harry Truman orders an end to military segregation

  • Supreme court rules against school segregation

  • Rosa Parks doesn't give up her seat to a white man and gets arrested

  • Supreme court rules that busses cannot be segregated

  • The SCLC is formed

    SCLC Stand for southern christian leadership conference
  • Rosa Parks Dies